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"content": "\u003cp>If you’ve read your John Steinbeck and listened to your Merle Haggard, or if you grew up in a farmworker family, you know that farm laborers in California have struggled to find decent housing for decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Except in a few cases, growers have no legal obligation to house employees, and there’s not a lot of state and federal money earmarked for farmworker housing. In the Salinas Valley -- the fifth- least-affordable place to live in the country -- there’s just not enough decent housing for all the people needed to pick crops like lettuce and strawberries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re a farmworker in the Salinas Valley, odds are, you’re living in the neighborhood of East Salinas. When I visit 18-year-old Rocio Tafoya at her apartment here, one of the first things she shows me is the bathroom. It has water damage and mold, and a tiny shower she can barely turn around in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is how we open the cold water.\" She grabs a wrench, and yanks on what’s left of the knob. “We don't have hot water right now, it's just cold.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/291572885\" params=\"auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"450\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is the only bathroom shared by the 11 people who live in this barely two-bedroom house. Her mother, also named Rocio Tafoya, walks in the door after a day working in the fields transplanting broccoli, cauliflower and radicchio. She wears a blue hardhat for safety, a bandana to protect her from both sun and cold, and carries a transistor radio in another bandana attached to her belt loop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Spanish she says, \"I have to have my music!\" and laughs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I ask how much she makes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I usually make $500 or $600 a week.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But rent is $1,600 a month, for a house where she says she can hear “rats dancing.” Her teenage daughters work with her during the summer, but, I ask, how does she make that math work?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Well, with the help of God,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her oldest daughter, Rocio, tells me this is better than their last place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That house, no lie, we used to live 34 people in total,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her family of nine shared one room. She says the landlady even made bunk beds in the laundry room, which she would rent out to older men, often drug addicts and drunkards. When her mom would leave for the fields at 3 or 4 in the morning, Rocio Tafoya says sometimes they'd come knocking on the door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Trying to make us open the door,\" she says. \"That's something scary I don't want to experience again.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11159786\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11159786\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/FamilyHouse-800x511.jpg\" alt=\"Rocio Tafoya (in green) with some of her children at the East Salinas apartment they rent.\" width=\"800\" height=\"511\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/FamilyHouse-800x511.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/FamilyHouse-160x102.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/FamilyHouse-1020x651.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/FamilyHouse.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/FamilyHouse-1180x753.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/FamilyHouse-960x613.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/FamilyHouse-240x153.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/FamilyHouse-375x239.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/FamilyHouse-520x332.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rocio Tafoya (in green) with some of her children at the East Salinas apartment they rent. \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I meet the Tafoya family through community organizer Joel Hernandez, who gives me a tour of East Salinas, where he grew up. The housing density is claustrophobic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You’ll see just apartment complexes everywhere,” he says. “Every single piece of property is crowded with one, two, three layers of them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He points out mobile homes and converted sheds stuffed into available yard spaces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In some situations, garages are being rented out,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Where houses stand alone, the number of vehicles overflowing from the street, parked on lawns, indicate these aren’t single-family homes. Hernandez says typically renters won’t report substandard conditions for fear of becoming homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today’s Salinas Valley would be unrecognizable to those who lived here in the late 1800s, according to community historians Jim Ross Riley and Ken Dursa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Salinas Valley was just grains, hay and grains, and cattle,” says Riley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When “suddenly the industrial revolution shows up in 1898, big time, big time,” Dursa says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11159794\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11159794\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Riley-800x549.jpg\" alt=\"Ken Dursa stands in front of the former “company home” he owns in Spreckels. Dursa worked at the Spreckels Sugar factory’s warehouse and electric shop and represented the union for years. \" width=\"800\" height=\"549\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Riley-800x549.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Riley-160x110.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Riley-1020x700.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Riley.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Riley-1180x809.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Riley-960x659.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Riley-240x165.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Riley-375x257.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Riley-520x357.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ken Dursa stands in front of the former 'company home' he owns in Spreckels. Dursa worked at the Spreckels Sugar factory’s warehouse and electric shop and represented the union for years. \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>International sugar production magnate Claus Spreckels \u003ca href=\"http://www.spreckelssugar.com/history.aspx\">convinced local farmers to grow sugar beets\u003c/a>, and he built a state-of-the-art factory, the biggest in the world, just outside Salinas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That was his trademark,” says Dursa. “The biggest and the best. The most modern.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around his factory, Spreckels built a town he named after himself, with simple, four-room houses for some workers, grander homes around the park for supervisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You had to work for Spreckels Sugar to live in the town,” says Riley, who still lives in the house his grandfather got to rent, dirt cheap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"YOjvu1TH7VzqHtrRahIKuzMMuMFGvad5\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ken Dursa worked in the warehouse and electric shop and represented the union for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The whistle went day and night like an air raid siren,” he says. “They even ran it at midnight,” for folks working graveyard shift.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dursa rifles through memorabilia, showing me the time cards of one John Steinbeck. He tells me, during the big sugar processing campaigns, “If you were anybody you worked at the factory.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Steinbeck may have made agriculture in this valley famous, but Claus Spreckels made it possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He introduced modern row crop agriculture to the entire Salinas Valley,” says Riley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dursa adds, “The main impact was irrigation. He built the ditches, built the pumps, laid out fields, brought in agronomists. No irrigation, no sugar beets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11159799\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11159799\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/FactoryBroccoli-800x515.jpg\" alt=\"Broccoli fields now occupy land in front of the old Spreckels sugar factory site.\" width=\"800\" height=\"515\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/FactoryBroccoli-800x515.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/FactoryBroccoli-160x103.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/FactoryBroccoli-1020x656.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/FactoryBroccoli.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/FactoryBroccoli-1180x759.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/FactoryBroccoli-960x618.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/FactoryBroccoli-240x154.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/FactoryBroccoli-375x241.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/FactoryBroccoli-520x334.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Broccoli fields now occupy land in front of the old Spreckels Sugar factory site. \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Those innovations had unintended consequences down the line. Crops like lettuce flourished (people referred to iceberg as “green gold”) and became more profitable than sugar beets. Local farmers stopped growing them, and transportation of beets from other parts of the state became too expensive. The factory stopped all operations in 1995.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And it’s gone now,” says Ken Dursa, tearing up. “The factory’s what fed us. Fed us and supported us. A lot of good people worked there and it’s just gone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two years later the site was purchased by agriculture giant \u003ca href=\"http://www.taproduce.com/\">Tanimura and Antle\u003c/a> -- which probably grew the lettuce in your last salad. This past spring, the company built new housing for workers where the factory once stood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After eight hours packing artisan romaine lettuce, Lucia Jaquez and Maricela Williams show me the apartment they share with three other women. Two bedroom/bathroom suites open onto a common living room and kitchen. It’s like a suite at a really spacious dorm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11159806\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11159806\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/MakingDinner-800x540.jpg\" alt=\"Maricela Williams and Lucia Jacquez cook at their apartment built by Tanimura and Antle.\" width=\"800\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/MakingDinner-800x540.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/MakingDinner-160x108.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/MakingDinner-1020x689.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/MakingDinner.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/MakingDinner-1180x797.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/MakingDinner-960x648.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/MakingDinner-240x162.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/MakingDinner-375x253.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/MakingDinner-520x351.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maricela Williams and Lucia Jaquez cook at their apartment built by Tanimura and Antle. \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>They invite me to stay for dinner -- chicken mole and rice. Both women are based near Yuma, Arizona, and work for Tanimura and Antle there. But last year, Jaquez decided to come up to work for the company for the Salinas Valley’s longer, more profitable season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All she could afford to rent was a single, windowless room on a tough East Salinas street. With no access to a kitchen, she had to eat out, and some days she could afford only one meal. She says she felt so uncomfortable and unsafe, she swore she’d never return.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At this new worker housing called \u003ca href=\"http://www.avilaconst.com/Avila/Agriculture/Pages/Spreckels_Crossing,_Spreckles.html\">Spreckels Crossing\u003c/a>, she has private security and low rent and lots of amenities like laundry and a convenience store, even sports fields and ESL classes. That seems great, except to a number of residents of modern-day Spreckels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11159824\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11159824\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/NewHousing-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Ag giant Tanimura and Antle, after struggling to find workers in 2015, built these new apartments in anticipation of needing temporary guest workers (H2A), for whom they would need to provide housing.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/NewHousing-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/NewHousing-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/NewHousing-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/NewHousing.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/NewHousing-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/NewHousing-960x641.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/NewHousing-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/NewHousing-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/NewHousing-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ag giant Tanimura and Antle, after struggling to find workers in 2015, built these new apartments in anticipation of needing temporary guest workers (H2A), for whom they would need to provide housing. \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The town is a quiet, peaceful enclave, only four blocks square with just over 700 residents. It has one park, one church, one general store without much on its shelves. The surprise announcement that Tanimura and Antle wanted to house up to 800 single workers in apartments on the edge of town made some residents worry their quality of life was in jeopardy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In public meetings, they raised concerns about the well-being of the farmworkers, especially citing the isolation they might feel so far from shopping and activities in Salinas. They also worried about infrastructure like water and sewage and traffic, about potential drops in housing prices. Some feared the project could draw prostitution, drug use, cockfights. Lifelong resident Jim Ross Riley collected and presented many of his neighbors’ concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Some news media said that we were racist,\" Riley says. \"I don’t care what church, or race or nationality they are, they are single males in their 20s and 30s and they don’t stay home and knit.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It got pretty heated. But nothing compared to what happened in the town of Nipomo, two hours south. Seven farmworker houses under construction were burned to the ground. Everyone I talked to in Spreckels says that would never happen here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I am not against farmworkers coming to the area,\" says Riley. “They are needed. I’m very concerned about their living conditions.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11159816\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11159816\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Riley-1-800x471.jpg\" alt=\"Jim Ross Riley is a life-long resident of Spreckels. His grandfather moved here to work for the Spreckels Sugar factory.\" width=\"800\" height=\"471\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Riley-1-800x471.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Riley-1-160x94.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Riley-1-1020x600.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Riley-1.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Riley-1-1180x694.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Riley-1-960x565.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Riley-1-240x141.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Riley-1-375x221.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Riley-1-520x306.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jim Ross Riley is a lifelong resident of Spreckels. His grandfather moved here to work for the Spreckels Sugar factory. \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But some Spreckels residents say Tanimura and Antle isn’t paying enough attention to their concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That's what upsets people is they get to do whatever they want,\" Riley says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Tanimura and Antle wanted worker housing. Let’s be really clear. This was a business decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President and CEO Rick Antle says the company never had a problem attracting workers in the Salinas Valley, “but in April of 2015, we actually depleted all of our lists of people looking for jobs, and we ended up about 200, 300 workers short,” he explains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's about 15 percent of their workforce. He says crops rotted in the field. “What it told us was that the situation was only going to get worse.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11159827\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11159827\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Farmworkers-800x525.jpg\" alt=\"Farmworkers labor in a field near Spreckels.\" width=\"800\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Farmworkers-800x525.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Farmworkers-160x105.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Farmworkers-1020x669.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Farmworkers.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Farmworkers-1180x774.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Farmworkers-960x630.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Farmworkers-240x158.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Farmworkers-375x246.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Farmworkers-520x341.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Farmworkers labor in a field near Spreckels. \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Now, he’d heard the stories of 20 workers sharing two-bedroom homes, and people living in garages -- but the company hadn’t made the connection between the housing shortage and the labor shortage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So Tanimura and Antle started planning to hire temporary guest workers on what’s called H2A visas. California is bringing them in at a faster rate than the rest of the country, and the Salinas Valley is driving that surge. Employers must provide housing for temporary workers. Some growers and labor contractors rented out whole hotels, but Antle says the company decided to build their own, at a cost of $17 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To the company’s surprise, their domestic workers based in the San Joaquin Valley and Arizona -- people like Lucia Jaquez and Maricela Williams -- said, \"If you build affordable housing in Spreckels, we’ll come.\" Nearly 300 employees did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With that we’ve been about to fully staff our crews,” Antle says. “We’ve had no losses in crops this year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11159834\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11159834\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/TinyRoom-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Tafoya family friend Ricardo rents a closet-sized room in their East Salinas apartment.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/TinyRoom-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/TinyRoom-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/TinyRoom-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/TinyRoom.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/TinyRoom-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/TinyRoom-960x641.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/TinyRoom-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/TinyRoom-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/TinyRoom-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tafoya family friend Ricardo rents a closet-size room in their East Salinas apartment. \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For much of the last century, workers in the Salinas Valley and across California often lived in worker housing: labor camps, close to the fields on growers’ land. Historians and housing advocates told me that, in the 1970s, after victories in the farmworker movement, the state enacted laws regulating employee housing. Many growers started tearing down substandard camps. Now, many workers have to find their own housing, and nonprofits are trying to fill in the gaps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Housing advocates are holding up Tanimura and Antle’s project as a model, but most growers can’t afford such an investment. Plus, this housing’s not a fix for year-round Salinas Valley workers. And even though it’s estimated that 80 percent of California farmworkers have home bases and families, Tanimura and Antle’s housing is only for employees: no kids allowed. I ask Antle: Isn’t the real need for farmworker family housing?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Yes,\" he says. “And we’ll be addressing that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While he wouldn’t give me more details, he later pointed out two huge storage sheds right next to the new housing he says will be Phase Two. Meanwhile, one nearby grower is getting permits to build similar apartments, and local governments are investing in a farmworker housing study.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11159839\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11159839\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Futbol-800x559.jpg\" alt=\"With remnants of the old sugar factory in the background, Tanimura and Antle employees play soccer after working in the fields.\" width=\"800\" height=\"559\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Futbol-800x559.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Futbol-160x112.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Futbol-1020x712.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Futbol.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Futbol-1180x824.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Futbol-960x671.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Futbol-240x168.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Futbol-375x262.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Futbol-520x363.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">With remnants of the old sugar factory in the background, Tanimura and Antle employees play soccer after working in the fields. \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This doesn’t change life for the Tafoya family in that cramped East Salinas house. That study won’t address their immediate needs, and, as a family, they wouldn’t qualify for worker-only housing. I ask: Who’s responsible for making sure there’s affordable housing for farmworkers? Mom says local politicians are. She and her daughter, Rocio Tafoya, both say growers should chip in. Then the younger Tafoya points out the bigger picture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"California is the one that produces the lettuce for everyone in the United States and probably it's something the state should do, too,\" Tafoya says, \"because we're the workers. I don't want to say we feed you, but ...\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says they deserve better.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Lisa Morehouse reported this story as part of the UC Berkeley-11th Hour Food and Farming Journalism Fellowship. California Foodways is supported in part by California Humanities. She received research help from Meradith Hoddinott.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>If you’ve read your John Steinbeck and listened to your Merle Haggard, or if you grew up in a farmworker family, you know that farm laborers in California have struggled to find decent housing for decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Except in a few cases, growers have no legal obligation to house employees, and there’s not a lot of state and federal money earmarked for farmworker housing. In the Salinas Valley -- the fifth- least-affordable place to live in the country -- there’s just not enough decent housing for all the people needed to pick crops like lettuce and strawberries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re a farmworker in the Salinas Valley, odds are, you’re living in the neighborhood of East Salinas. When I visit 18-year-old Rocio Tafoya at her apartment here, one of the first things she shows me is the bathroom. It has water damage and mold, and a tiny shower she can barely turn around in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is how we open the cold water.\" She grabs a wrench, and yanks on what’s left of the knob. “We don't have hot water right now, it's just cold.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='450'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/291572885&visual=true&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/291572885'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is the only bathroom shared by the 11 people who live in this barely two-bedroom house. Her mother, also named Rocio Tafoya, walks in the door after a day working in the fields transplanting broccoli, cauliflower and radicchio. She wears a blue hardhat for safety, a bandana to protect her from both sun and cold, and carries a transistor radio in another bandana attached to her belt loop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Spanish she says, \"I have to have my music!\" and laughs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I ask how much she makes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I usually make $500 or $600 a week.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But rent is $1,600 a month, for a house where she says she can hear “rats dancing.” Her teenage daughters work with her during the summer, but, I ask, how does she make that math work?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Well, with the help of God,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her oldest daughter, Rocio, tells me this is better than their last place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That house, no lie, we used to live 34 people in total,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her family of nine shared one room. She says the landlady even made bunk beds in the laundry room, which she would rent out to older men, often drug addicts and drunkards. When her mom would leave for the fields at 3 or 4 in the morning, Rocio Tafoya says sometimes they'd come knocking on the door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Trying to make us open the door,\" she says. \"That's something scary I don't want to experience again.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11159786\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11159786\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/FamilyHouse-800x511.jpg\" alt=\"Rocio Tafoya (in green) with some of her children at the East Salinas apartment they rent.\" width=\"800\" height=\"511\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/FamilyHouse-800x511.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/FamilyHouse-160x102.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/FamilyHouse-1020x651.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/FamilyHouse.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/FamilyHouse-1180x753.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/FamilyHouse-960x613.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/FamilyHouse-240x153.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/FamilyHouse-375x239.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/FamilyHouse-520x332.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rocio Tafoya (in green) with some of her children at the East Salinas apartment they rent. \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I meet the Tafoya family through community organizer Joel Hernandez, who gives me a tour of East Salinas, where he grew up. The housing density is claustrophobic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You’ll see just apartment complexes everywhere,” he says. “Every single piece of property is crowded with one, two, three layers of them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He points out mobile homes and converted sheds stuffed into available yard spaces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In some situations, garages are being rented out,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Where houses stand alone, the number of vehicles overflowing from the street, parked on lawns, indicate these aren’t single-family homes. Hernandez says typically renters won’t report substandard conditions for fear of becoming homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today’s Salinas Valley would be unrecognizable to those who lived here in the late 1800s, according to community historians Jim Ross Riley and Ken Dursa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Salinas Valley was just grains, hay and grains, and cattle,” says Riley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When “suddenly the industrial revolution shows up in 1898, big time, big time,” Dursa says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11159794\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11159794\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Riley-800x549.jpg\" alt=\"Ken Dursa stands in front of the former “company home” he owns in Spreckels. Dursa worked at the Spreckels Sugar factory’s warehouse and electric shop and represented the union for years. \" width=\"800\" height=\"549\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Riley-800x549.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Riley-160x110.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Riley-1020x700.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Riley.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Riley-1180x809.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Riley-960x659.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Riley-240x165.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Riley-375x257.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Riley-520x357.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ken Dursa stands in front of the former 'company home' he owns in Spreckels. Dursa worked at the Spreckels Sugar factory’s warehouse and electric shop and represented the union for years. \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>International sugar production magnate Claus Spreckels \u003ca href=\"http://www.spreckelssugar.com/history.aspx\">convinced local farmers to grow sugar beets\u003c/a>, and he built a state-of-the-art factory, the biggest in the world, just outside Salinas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That was his trademark,” says Dursa. “The biggest and the best. The most modern.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around his factory, Spreckels built a town he named after himself, with simple, four-room houses for some workers, grander homes around the park for supervisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You had to work for Spreckels Sugar to live in the town,” says Riley, who still lives in the house his grandfather got to rent, dirt cheap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ken Dursa worked in the warehouse and electric shop and represented the union for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The whistle went day and night like an air raid siren,” he says. “They even ran it at midnight,” for folks working graveyard shift.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dursa rifles through memorabilia, showing me the time cards of one John Steinbeck. He tells me, during the big sugar processing campaigns, “If you were anybody you worked at the factory.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Steinbeck may have made agriculture in this valley famous, but Claus Spreckels made it possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He introduced modern row crop agriculture to the entire Salinas Valley,” says Riley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dursa adds, “The main impact was irrigation. He built the ditches, built the pumps, laid out fields, brought in agronomists. No irrigation, no sugar beets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11159799\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11159799\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/FactoryBroccoli-800x515.jpg\" alt=\"Broccoli fields now occupy land in front of the old Spreckels sugar factory site.\" width=\"800\" height=\"515\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/FactoryBroccoli-800x515.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/FactoryBroccoli-160x103.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/FactoryBroccoli-1020x656.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/FactoryBroccoli.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/FactoryBroccoli-1180x759.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/FactoryBroccoli-960x618.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/FactoryBroccoli-240x154.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/FactoryBroccoli-375x241.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/FactoryBroccoli-520x334.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Broccoli fields now occupy land in front of the old Spreckels Sugar factory site. \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Those innovations had unintended consequences down the line. Crops like lettuce flourished (people referred to iceberg as “green gold”) and became more profitable than sugar beets. Local farmers stopped growing them, and transportation of beets from other parts of the state became too expensive. The factory stopped all operations in 1995.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And it’s gone now,” says Ken Dursa, tearing up. “The factory’s what fed us. Fed us and supported us. A lot of good people worked there and it’s just gone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two years later the site was purchased by agriculture giant \u003ca href=\"http://www.taproduce.com/\">Tanimura and Antle\u003c/a> -- which probably grew the lettuce in your last salad. This past spring, the company built new housing for workers where the factory once stood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After eight hours packing artisan romaine lettuce, Lucia Jaquez and Maricela Williams show me the apartment they share with three other women. Two bedroom/bathroom suites open onto a common living room and kitchen. It’s like a suite at a really spacious dorm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11159806\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11159806\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/MakingDinner-800x540.jpg\" alt=\"Maricela Williams and Lucia Jacquez cook at their apartment built by Tanimura and Antle.\" width=\"800\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/MakingDinner-800x540.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/MakingDinner-160x108.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/MakingDinner-1020x689.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/MakingDinner.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/MakingDinner-1180x797.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/MakingDinner-960x648.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/MakingDinner-240x162.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/MakingDinner-375x253.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/MakingDinner-520x351.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maricela Williams and Lucia Jaquez cook at their apartment built by Tanimura and Antle. \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>They invite me to stay for dinner -- chicken mole and rice. Both women are based near Yuma, Arizona, and work for Tanimura and Antle there. But last year, Jaquez decided to come up to work for the company for the Salinas Valley’s longer, more profitable season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All she could afford to rent was a single, windowless room on a tough East Salinas street. With no access to a kitchen, she had to eat out, and some days she could afford only one meal. She says she felt so uncomfortable and unsafe, she swore she’d never return.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At this new worker housing called \u003ca href=\"http://www.avilaconst.com/Avila/Agriculture/Pages/Spreckels_Crossing,_Spreckles.html\">Spreckels Crossing\u003c/a>, she has private security and low rent and lots of amenities like laundry and a convenience store, even sports fields and ESL classes. That seems great, except to a number of residents of modern-day Spreckels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11159824\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11159824\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/NewHousing-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Ag giant Tanimura and Antle, after struggling to find workers in 2015, built these new apartments in anticipation of needing temporary guest workers (H2A), for whom they would need to provide housing.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/NewHousing-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/NewHousing-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/NewHousing-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/NewHousing.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/NewHousing-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/NewHousing-960x641.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/NewHousing-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/NewHousing-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/NewHousing-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ag giant Tanimura and Antle, after struggling to find workers in 2015, built these new apartments in anticipation of needing temporary guest workers (H2A), for whom they would need to provide housing. \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The town is a quiet, peaceful enclave, only four blocks square with just over 700 residents. It has one park, one church, one general store without much on its shelves. The surprise announcement that Tanimura and Antle wanted to house up to 800 single workers in apartments on the edge of town made some residents worry their quality of life was in jeopardy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In public meetings, they raised concerns about the well-being of the farmworkers, especially citing the isolation they might feel so far from shopping and activities in Salinas. They also worried about infrastructure like water and sewage and traffic, about potential drops in housing prices. Some feared the project could draw prostitution, drug use, cockfights. Lifelong resident Jim Ross Riley collected and presented many of his neighbors’ concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Some news media said that we were racist,\" Riley says. \"I don’t care what church, or race or nationality they are, they are single males in their 20s and 30s and they don’t stay home and knit.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It got pretty heated. But nothing compared to what happened in the town of Nipomo, two hours south. Seven farmworker houses under construction were burned to the ground. Everyone I talked to in Spreckels says that would never happen here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I am not against farmworkers coming to the area,\" says Riley. “They are needed. I’m very concerned about their living conditions.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11159816\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11159816\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Riley-1-800x471.jpg\" alt=\"Jim Ross Riley is a life-long resident of Spreckels. His grandfather moved here to work for the Spreckels Sugar factory.\" width=\"800\" height=\"471\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Riley-1-800x471.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Riley-1-160x94.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Riley-1-1020x600.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Riley-1.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Riley-1-1180x694.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Riley-1-960x565.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Riley-1-240x141.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Riley-1-375x221.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Riley-1-520x306.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jim Ross Riley is a lifelong resident of Spreckels. His grandfather moved here to work for the Spreckels Sugar factory. \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But some Spreckels residents say Tanimura and Antle isn’t paying enough attention to their concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That's what upsets people is they get to do whatever they want,\" Riley says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Tanimura and Antle wanted worker housing. Let’s be really clear. This was a business decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President and CEO Rick Antle says the company never had a problem attracting workers in the Salinas Valley, “but in April of 2015, we actually depleted all of our lists of people looking for jobs, and we ended up about 200, 300 workers short,” he explains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's about 15 percent of their workforce. He says crops rotted in the field. “What it told us was that the situation was only going to get worse.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11159827\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11159827\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Farmworkers-800x525.jpg\" alt=\"Farmworkers labor in a field near Spreckels.\" width=\"800\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Farmworkers-800x525.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Farmworkers-160x105.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Farmworkers-1020x669.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Farmworkers.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Farmworkers-1180x774.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Farmworkers-960x630.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Farmworkers-240x158.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Farmworkers-375x246.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Farmworkers-520x341.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Farmworkers labor in a field near Spreckels. \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Now, he’d heard the stories of 20 workers sharing two-bedroom homes, and people living in garages -- but the company hadn’t made the connection between the housing shortage and the labor shortage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So Tanimura and Antle started planning to hire temporary guest workers on what’s called H2A visas. California is bringing them in at a faster rate than the rest of the country, and the Salinas Valley is driving that surge. Employers must provide housing for temporary workers. Some growers and labor contractors rented out whole hotels, but Antle says the company decided to build their own, at a cost of $17 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To the company’s surprise, their domestic workers based in the San Joaquin Valley and Arizona -- people like Lucia Jaquez and Maricela Williams -- said, \"If you build affordable housing in Spreckels, we’ll come.\" Nearly 300 employees did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With that we’ve been about to fully staff our crews,” Antle says. “We’ve had no losses in crops this year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11159834\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11159834\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/TinyRoom-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Tafoya family friend Ricardo rents a closet-sized room in their East Salinas apartment.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/TinyRoom-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/TinyRoom-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/TinyRoom-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/TinyRoom.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/TinyRoom-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/TinyRoom-960x641.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/TinyRoom-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/TinyRoom-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/TinyRoom-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tafoya family friend Ricardo rents a closet-size room in their East Salinas apartment. \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For much of the last century, workers in the Salinas Valley and across California often lived in worker housing: labor camps, close to the fields on growers’ land. Historians and housing advocates told me that, in the 1970s, after victories in the farmworker movement, the state enacted laws regulating employee housing. Many growers started tearing down substandard camps. Now, many workers have to find their own housing, and nonprofits are trying to fill in the gaps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Housing advocates are holding up Tanimura and Antle’s project as a model, but most growers can’t afford such an investment. Plus, this housing’s not a fix for year-round Salinas Valley workers. And even though it’s estimated that 80 percent of California farmworkers have home bases and families, Tanimura and Antle’s housing is only for employees: no kids allowed. I ask Antle: Isn’t the real need for farmworker family housing?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Yes,\" he says. “And we’ll be addressing that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While he wouldn’t give me more details, he later pointed out two huge storage sheds right next to the new housing he says will be Phase Two. Meanwhile, one nearby grower is getting permits to build similar apartments, and local governments are investing in a farmworker housing study.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11159839\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11159839\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Futbol-800x559.jpg\" alt=\"With remnants of the old sugar factory in the background, Tanimura and Antle employees play soccer after working in the fields.\" width=\"800\" height=\"559\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Futbol-800x559.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Futbol-160x112.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Futbol-1020x712.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Futbol.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Futbol-1180x824.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Futbol-960x671.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Futbol-240x168.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Futbol-375x262.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Futbol-520x363.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">With remnants of the old sugar factory in the background, Tanimura and Antle employees play soccer after working in the fields. \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This doesn’t change life for the Tafoya family in that cramped East Salinas house. That study won’t address their immediate needs, and, as a family, they wouldn’t qualify for worker-only housing. I ask: Who’s responsible for making sure there’s affordable housing for farmworkers? Mom says local politicians are. She and her daughter, Rocio Tafoya, both say growers should chip in. Then the younger Tafoya points out the bigger picture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"California is the one that produces the lettuce for everyone in the United States and probably it's something the state should do, too,\" Tafoya says, \"because we're the workers. I don't want to say we feed you, but ...\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says they deserve better.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>When the last resident of a ramshackle Chinese shrimping village died, so did a link to a history little known to the hikers and bikers who visit this shoreline park in Northern California’s Marin County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frank Quan was days from his 91st birthday when he died of natural causes in August at \u003ca href=\"http://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=466\">China Camp State Park\u003c/a>. His fishing village was among more than two dozen around the San Francisco Bay Area that provided sanctuary for immigrants fleeing growing\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/02/12/boomtown-history-2b/\"> anti-Chinese sentiment in the 19th century.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his long life, Quan watched as the village that once housed hundreds dwindled in size, eventually becoming a state park that had to fight off closure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The World War II veteran is scheduled to be honored Saturday at a public memorial featuring Chinese lion dancers, a U.S. Navy flag ceremony and music from the 1940s, his favorite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friends and family described Quan as the embodiment of the historic village, a reticent man who became the face of a place nurtured and destroyed by prejudice. In doing so, he helped preserve its legacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11129577\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11129577 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS1670_ChinaCampFrank-dock-800x450.png\" alt=\"Frank Quan \" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS1670_ChinaCampFrank-dock-800x450.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS1670_ChinaCampFrank-dock-400x225.png 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS1670_ChinaCampFrank-dock-960x540.png 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS1670_ChinaCampFrank-dock.png 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Frank Quan. \u003ccite>(Carrie Ching/California Watch)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“He had to fight his shyness. But he tried because he was in the public eye, and he served the public and the park, and he had to be outgoing,” says Georgette Quan Dahlka, a cousin who also grew up in China Camp and later ran a small snack shack with Quan at the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At its peak in the 1880s the camp north of San Francisco housed about 500 people and had general stores, a marine supply store and barber shop. Residents caught and shipped shrimp back to China.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the time Quan was born, however, the village was declining. The 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act shut out new immigrants. Later, lawmakers banned shrimp exports as well as the net bags used by Chinese.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We used to pull out 3 million pounds of shrimp a year around here. One boat could bring in two tons a day,” Quan told The Associated Press in 2011. “It’s hard to see this all go to hell in a lifetime.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quan was the oldest of four children born to Henry and Grace Quan, a white woman who had to marry her husband in Nevada because California prohibited mixed-race marriages at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quan’s grandfather had come from China and opened a general store at the camp. Henry and his brother George grew up to operate the family’s shrimping business, boat rentals and cafe. Their six children helped out after school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frank wanted to be an architect, says sister Bertha Quan Chew, but he returned to the village after their father died in 1950. He became the shrimper, helping support their mother and aunt, also widowed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He knew he couldn’t do what he wanted to do. He had to take care of the family,” she said on a recent Saturday, the park crowded with picnickers and sunbathers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11129575\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11129575 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/14204489287_30afe459d9_k-800x600.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">At its peak in the 1880s the camp north of San Francisco housed about 500 people. \u003ccite>(Roger Hsu/\u003ca href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/125382597@N08/14204489287/\">Flickr\u003c/a>)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Quan was generous and kind, his friends say, a doting older brother and fabulous cook who presided over holiday meals with gourmet lamb roasts and dressing. Except for his time as a Navy signalman in World War II, he lived his life at China Camp. He never married.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quan played a key role in turning China Camp into a state park in the 1970s after a developer donated the land as a memorial to the Bay Area’s Chinese-American history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Statewide budget cuts in 2011 almost closed the park, but a group called Friends of China Camp mounted a grassroots campaign to keep it open. Operating China Camp costs about $600,000 a year ate, said the nonprofit’s executive director, Martin Lowenstein. The money comes from user fees and donations, not the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s unclear what will happen to the snack shop or to Quan’s house.\u003cbr>\nOutside the snack shop is a small memorial. Flowers surround a framed photo of Quan on a lace-topped table. Taped to the window above are sheets of white paper filled with handwritten goodbye notes. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>When the last resident of a ramshackle Chinese shrimping village died, so did a link to a history little known to the hikers and bikers who visit this shoreline park in Northern California’s Marin County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frank Quan was days from his 91st birthday when he died of natural causes in August at \u003ca href=\"http://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=466\">China Camp State Park\u003c/a>. His fishing village was among more than two dozen around the San Francisco Bay Area that provided sanctuary for immigrants fleeing growing\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/02/12/boomtown-history-2b/\"> anti-Chinese sentiment in the 19th century.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his long life, Quan watched as the village that once housed hundreds dwindled in size, eventually becoming a state park that had to fight off closure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The World War II veteran is scheduled to be honored Saturday at a public memorial featuring Chinese lion dancers, a U.S. Navy flag ceremony and music from the 1940s, his favorite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friends and family described Quan as the embodiment of the historic village, a reticent man who became the face of a place nurtured and destroyed by prejudice. In doing so, he helped preserve its legacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11129577\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11129577 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS1670_ChinaCampFrank-dock-800x450.png\" alt=\"Frank Quan \" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS1670_ChinaCampFrank-dock-800x450.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS1670_ChinaCampFrank-dock-400x225.png 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS1670_ChinaCampFrank-dock-960x540.png 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS1670_ChinaCampFrank-dock.png 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Frank Quan. \u003ccite>(Carrie Ching/California Watch)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“He had to fight his shyness. But he tried because he was in the public eye, and he served the public and the park, and he had to be outgoing,” says Georgette Quan Dahlka, a cousin who also grew up in China Camp and later ran a small snack shack with Quan at the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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That’s why we dedicated a special edition of our broadcast last week to exploring challenges Latino youth face when it comes to education, jobs and financial security.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s part of a collaboration with NPR called \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/a-nation-engaged/\" target=\"_blank\">A Nation Engaged\u003c/a>, about unlocking economic opportunities for more Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We met UC students mired in debt, a teen who has to take a long bus ride to get on the internet and a young single mom who’s struggling to get her GED.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/10/02/when-a-jobs-not-enough-to-get-you-off-food-stamps/\" target=\"_blank\">When a Job’s Not Enough to Get You Off Food Stamps\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11120016\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11120016 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Lupe-800x523.jpg\" alt='“I need to get this diploma,” says Guadalupe Beltran. “I need to get this out of the way, it’s like a big ol’ stone that’s right there. 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But first, she needs to get her GED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I need to get this diploma,\" says Beltran. “I need to get this out of the way, it’s like a big ole’ stone that’s right there. 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But now he’s saddled with $45,000 in debt. Experts say if current trends in tuition increases persist, the University of California will become the most expensive public higher education system in the country. We hear from four UC alums and students -- from the 1950s to the present -- about the evolving promise of a free college education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It definitely is a scary thought to think about. There’s $45,000 in debt that I have to get over before I can really take on the rest of life,” says Rogel.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/10/01/how-far-would-you-ride-a-bus-to-get-your-homework-done/\" target=\"_blank\">How Far Would You Ride a Bus to Get Your Homework Done?\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11120082\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11120082\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Rosy-1920x1324-800x552.jpg\" alt=\"Rosy Mendez (L) rides a slow-moving bus through the Eastern Coachella valley to get to the library to get her homework done.\" width=\"800\" height=\"552\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Rosy-1920x1324-800x552.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Rosy-1920x1324-400x276.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Rosy-1920x1324.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Rosy-1920x1324-1180x814.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Rosy-1920x1324-960x662.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rosy Mendez (L) rides a slow-moving bus through the Eastern Coachella Valley to get to the library to get her homework done. \u003ccite>(Bryan Mendez/Coachella Unincorporated)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rosy Mendez\u003c/strong> has to take a windy, slow-moving bus through the desert to the public library each day to be able to do her homework. 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A few toys litter the thirsty lawn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But open the front door going directly into Synanonh’s tidy living room, and suddenly signs of ordinary life fade away to the sound of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ksanti.net/free-reed/essays/khaenlaos.html\">khaen\u003c/a>, a traditional Laotian bamboo mouth organ.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yes, off the beaten path in central Fresno, you’ll find a masterful musician, so well regarded that he was recently chosen as one of only nine artists in the United States to receive the \u003ca href=\"https://www.arts.gov/honors/heritage\">National Heritage Fellowship\u003c/a> from the National Endowment for the Arts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/284372971″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s no higher award honoring traditional and folk artists in America. Some past recipients include BB King, the creator of bluegrass Bill Monroe, and ballad singer and storyteller Sheila Kay Adams. Rarely are the artists as famous as the king of the blues, but they are masters of their work, connecting people to a sense of place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And every time \u003ca href=\"https://www.arts.gov/honors/heritage/fellows/bounxeung-synanonh\">Synanonh plays the khaen\u003c/a>, he is playing nothing less than the sound of home for the Laotian diaspora in Fresno and beyond. Playing the khaen is kind of like playing the harmonica in that the musician inhales and exhales through the instrument, allowing for a continuous sound.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the khaen looks nothing like a harmonica. It has 16 long bamboo pipes or “flutes.” Synanonh blows through only one hole and plays notes with his fingers on the bamboo pipes. Each one of the pipes has a small metal reed in it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Synanonh was 15, he learned to play the khaen from his uncle and other village elders in Laos. That same year, he lost his eyesight. He says being blind forced him to learn only by ear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Once he got blind, and can’t see, then he plays more and more, and now he becomes an expert,” says Sonny Somchitvongsa, Synanonh’s interpreter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, Lao communities all over the country invite Synanonh to perform and even teach music lessons. This summer, he performed in Washington, D.C., at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.festival.si.edu/\">Smithsonian Folklife Festival\u003c/a>. His dedication to preserving the tradition of the khaen is one reason why he won a National Heritage Fellowship, which includes a $25,000 award.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11101008\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/khaen-800x1051.jpg\" alt=\"Bounxeung Synanonh plays the khaen, which he says takes a lot of lung power.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1051\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11101008\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/khaen-800x1051.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/khaen-400x526.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/khaen.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/khaen-1180x1551.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/khaen-960x1262.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bounxeung Synanonh plays the khaen, which he says takes a lot of lung power. \u003ccite>(Alice Daniel/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The khaen is not only a rich solo instrument; it’s also used to accompany storytelling in song.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Somchitvongsa is happy to demonstrate but he first he has to make sure Synanonh is in the right key.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can’t sing the high key, too high,” he says, and then sings a few words. “OK. 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"content": "\u003cp>Los Angeles County's growing homeless population includes one group that’s not so visible: immigrants who came to the United States to earn a better living but couldn’t, and are ending up without shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On any given day at a Cypress Park Community Job Center, located in the parking lot of a busy Home Depot, some of the day laborers waiting for work don't have a home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of them are staying on the streets,\" said Luis Valentan, who manages the day labor center, which is run by Instituto de Educacion Popular del Sur de California, \u003ca href=\"http://idepsca.org/\">a community nonprofit\u003c/a>. \"We know a couple of workers that sleep in the back of a truck or under a bridge, or in a park,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/284292368\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the day laborers is a 51-year-old man who goes by Alonso. He did not want to use his full name because he doesn't have legal status and he does not want this family to know he's homeless. He said he's been that way for about four years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I sleep on the street, not in the open street, but someplace where I have a tent,\" said Alonso.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alonso said he camps high up in Elysian Park, about a 15-minute walk from the Home Depot. He shows up for work looking clean and presentable. He said he tries to use public showers when he can, but other times, washes in the L.A. River or in the nearby Arroyo Seco.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'There is no way for a worker that is not working every day to pay a decent rent. ... There are no more decent rents.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“I bathe when it rains and it is clean,\" he said in Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alonso has struggled since the recession. Until about four years ago, he was able to rent a room nearby. But the work dried up, and the money wasn't enough. He stopped sending money home to his parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others who came to the U.S. to find work have found themselves on similar footing, Valentan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's more about survival,\" Valentan said. \"This gentrification that is happening in Los Angeles, it is leaving pretty much everybody without opportunities. Like rents are very expensive now. There is no way for a worker that is not working every day to pay a decent rent. There are no more decent rents.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11100566\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11100566 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IntakeCoord-800x529.jpg\" alt=\"Rigoberto Bejarano (L) talks with intake coordinator Salvador Mendoza at Proyecto Pastoral. The group established The Guadalupe Homeless Project in 1988.\" width=\"800\" height=\"529\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IntakeCoord-800x529.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IntakeCoord-400x264.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IntakeCoord.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IntakeCoord-1180x780.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IntakeCoord-960x635.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rigoberto Bejarano (L) talks with intake coordinator Salvador Mendoza at Proyecto Pastoral. The group established the Guadalupe Homeless Project in 1988. \u003ccite>(Dan Tuffs/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lately, Valentan and the job center staff have referred a growing number of workers to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.dolores-mission.org/\">Dolores Mission\u003c/a> in Boyle Heights. The shelter is unique in that it caters to Spanish-speaking immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Overall, we have seen a huge increase in the number of people coming to us, and newly homeless, since 2009,\" said Cynthia Sanchez, director of Proyecto Pastoral, the nonprofit that runs the shelter at Dolores Mission Church.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The church shelter first opened its doors nearly 30 years ago to house refugees fleeing war-torn Central America. Now, it shelters a different crowd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most of them are day laborers. They work in construction or they work in restaurants, they work in landscaping,\" Sanchez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twenty-six men sleep inside the church sanctuary and several others sleep in adjacent buildings. A smaller women's shelter opened a year and a half ago, housing mostly older women who work in domestic jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of those who wind up on the street are single men, Sanchez said. They are here on their own, without families in the U.S., and often send money back home to relatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'Shadow' Population\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanchez and others who work with the homeless immigrants see them as a shadow population within Los Angeles' growing homeless ranks. Since last year, the number of homeless in Los Angeles County rose by almost 6 percent over the past year to 46,874 people, according to \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/news/2016/05/04/60286/la-homelessness-up-6-percent-over-last-year/\">a census of the homeless\u003c/a> released in May.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The immigrant homeless are part of this population, but there are barriers to assisting them. Many are reluctant to seek services or go to shelters, according to local day labor centers and others who work with them. They said they are afraid of others on the street who are mentally ill or use drugs. Some from foreign countries are fearful of the black homeless population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"S0uDkOER4VT30ZR60ZpzaYElt0IUuC09\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is also a sense of shame, Sanchez said. Some among the immigrant homeless are reluctant to accept help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know, they don’t see themselves as being homeless or as needing shelter, but rather as needing support so they can work,\" Sanchez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their lack of legal status in the U.S. also makes them reluctant to step forward, whether to report a crime or to enter a shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Even when they come here to the program, and we start putting their information into the computer, they ask: Where does this information go? Is it going to affect us?\" said Salvador Mendoza, who handles intake at Dolores Mission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>County officials said those who lack legal status also have other issues accessing services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"For the most part, undocumented immigrants are not eligible for public benefits, that being federal housing subsidies, or CalFresh benefits, formerly known as food stamps,\" said Phil Ansell, director of Los Angeles County's new \u003ca href=\"http://priorities.lacounty.gov/homeless/\">Homeless Initiative\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ansell said that's not to say U.S. citizens and legal residents who are homeless have it much easier. He said there isn't enough federal Section 8 housing assistance to go around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The overall challenge is that rents are high and that wages are low,\" Ansell said. \"And that is the same challenge that faces most other homeless families and individuals.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ansell said he hoped recent minimum wage and anti-wage theft laws might help. Wage theft -- when employers withhold wages or benefits owed to an employee -- is rampant in day labor and other low-wage industries that attract immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanchez at Dolores Mission said for now, their best solution for moving people into permanent housing is to place them with roommates in private rentals. But rising rents lately have made that difficult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Getting Off the Streets\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every night at the Dolores Mission, after dinner, the cots go up inside the church, even where the altar stands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It gets pushed to the side to allow space for eight cots to go up on the altar,” Sanchez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11100573\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11100573\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/DoloresMission-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Dolores Mission, where evening meals are served at Proyecto Pastoral.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/DoloresMission-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/DoloresMission-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/DoloresMission.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/DoloresMission-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/DoloresMission-960x641.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dolores Mission, where evening meals are served at Proyecto Pastoral. \u003ccite>(Dan Tuffs/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Twenty-six men sleep in the church. Others sleep in adjacent buildings. Altogether the men's shelter houses 45. There is also a smaller women's shelter that opened a year and a half ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One recent evening, a few of the men gathered around the TV before dinner. Among them was 59-year-old Andres Gonzales Perez, a relatively recent arrival to the mission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been here for two months,\" Gonzales said. \"It is the first time I am here at a mission, unfortunately.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzales said it's the first time he has been homeless. He used to work as a baker, but became sick with a lung ailment that needed treatment and couldn’t keep working. He tried unsuccessfully staying with his brother. About three months ago, he wound up on the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was very cold,\" Gonzales said. \"I got an ugly cough.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rigoberto Bejerano has been on the street longer. He said he tried staying for a time downtown, near Skid Row, where all the services are, but he found that frightening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There’s lots of drugs, lots of alcoholism, lots of perdition, lots of vandalism,\" said Bejerano, who has worked as a handyman. \"People don’t have any money, so they attack others to get what they want. It’s dangerous living downtown.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in Cypress Park, Alonso said one reason he camps in the hills is to avoid the dangers of the streets. He said he's been thinking lately about heading back to Mexico after 16 years in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he hasn't talked to his parents since he’s been on the street. At first, he told them everything was OK. Then he stopped calling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Instead of making them happy to hear from me, it would make them upset,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's been years now since he had contact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What really breaks my heart is that I don’t know if my dad is alive, if my mom is alive, if my siblings are OK,\" Alonso said. \"I love them very much ... and I’m afraid they will think that I am ingrate, that I don’t want to help them, that I forgot about them -- and it’s not like that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said that if things don’t get better within a couple of years, he’ll head home.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I sleep on the street, not in the open street, but someplace where I have a tent,\" said Alonso.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alonso said he camps high up in Elysian Park, about a 15-minute walk from the Home Depot. He shows up for work looking clean and presentable. He said he tries to use public showers when he can, but other times, washes in the L.A. River or in the nearby Arroyo Seco.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'There is no way for a worker that is not working every day to pay a decent rent. ... There are no more decent rents.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“I bathe when it rains and it is clean,\" he said in Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alonso has struggled since the recession. Until about four years ago, he was able to rent a room nearby. But the work dried up, and the money wasn't enough. He stopped sending money home to his parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others who came to the U.S. to find work have found themselves on similar footing, Valentan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's more about survival,\" Valentan said. \"This gentrification that is happening in Los Angeles, it is leaving pretty much everybody without opportunities. Like rents are very expensive now. There is no way for a worker that is not working every day to pay a decent rent. There are no more decent rents.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11100566\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11100566 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IntakeCoord-800x529.jpg\" alt=\"Rigoberto Bejarano (L) talks with intake coordinator Salvador Mendoza at Proyecto Pastoral. The group established The Guadalupe Homeless Project in 1988.\" width=\"800\" height=\"529\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IntakeCoord-800x529.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IntakeCoord-400x264.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IntakeCoord.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IntakeCoord-1180x780.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IntakeCoord-960x635.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rigoberto Bejarano (L) talks with intake coordinator Salvador Mendoza at Proyecto Pastoral. The group established the Guadalupe Homeless Project in 1988. \u003ccite>(Dan Tuffs/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lately, Valentan and the job center staff have referred a growing number of workers to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.dolores-mission.org/\">Dolores Mission\u003c/a> in Boyle Heights. The shelter is unique in that it caters to Spanish-speaking immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Overall, we have seen a huge increase in the number of people coming to us, and newly homeless, since 2009,\" said Cynthia Sanchez, director of Proyecto Pastoral, the nonprofit that runs the shelter at Dolores Mission Church.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The church shelter first opened its doors nearly 30 years ago to house refugees fleeing war-torn Central America. Now, it shelters a different crowd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most of them are day laborers. They work in construction or they work in restaurants, they work in landscaping,\" Sanchez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twenty-six men sleep inside the church sanctuary and several others sleep in adjacent buildings. A smaller women's shelter opened a year and a half ago, housing mostly older women who work in domestic jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of those who wind up on the street are single men, Sanchez said. They are here on their own, without families in the U.S., and often send money back home to relatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'Shadow' Population\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanchez and others who work with the homeless immigrants see them as a shadow population within Los Angeles' growing homeless ranks. Since last year, the number of homeless in Los Angeles County rose by almost 6 percent over the past year to 46,874 people, according to \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/news/2016/05/04/60286/la-homelessness-up-6-percent-over-last-year/\">a census of the homeless\u003c/a> released in May.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The immigrant homeless are part of this population, but there are barriers to assisting them. Many are reluctant to seek services or go to shelters, according to local day labor centers and others who work with them. They said they are afraid of others on the street who are mentally ill or use drugs. Some from foreign countries are fearful of the black homeless population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is also a sense of shame, Sanchez said. Some among the immigrant homeless are reluctant to accept help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know, they don’t see themselves as being homeless or as needing shelter, but rather as needing support so they can work,\" Sanchez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their lack of legal status in the U.S. also makes them reluctant to step forward, whether to report a crime or to enter a shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Even when they come here to the program, and we start putting their information into the computer, they ask: Where does this information go? Is it going to affect us?\" said Salvador Mendoza, who handles intake at Dolores Mission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>County officials said those who lack legal status also have other issues accessing services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"For the most part, undocumented immigrants are not eligible for public benefits, that being federal housing subsidies, or CalFresh benefits, formerly known as food stamps,\" said Phil Ansell, director of Los Angeles County's new \u003ca href=\"http://priorities.lacounty.gov/homeless/\">Homeless Initiative\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ansell said that's not to say U.S. citizens and legal residents who are homeless have it much easier. He said there isn't enough federal Section 8 housing assistance to go around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The overall challenge is that rents are high and that wages are low,\" Ansell said. \"And that is the same challenge that faces most other homeless families and individuals.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ansell said he hoped recent minimum wage and anti-wage theft laws might help. Wage theft -- when employers withhold wages or benefits owed to an employee -- is rampant in day labor and other low-wage industries that attract immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanchez at Dolores Mission said for now, their best solution for moving people into permanent housing is to place them with roommates in private rentals. But rising rents lately have made that difficult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Getting Off the Streets\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every night at the Dolores Mission, after dinner, the cots go up inside the church, even where the altar stands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It gets pushed to the side to allow space for eight cots to go up on the altar,” Sanchez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11100573\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11100573\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/DoloresMission-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Dolores Mission, where evening meals are served at Proyecto Pastoral.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/DoloresMission-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/DoloresMission-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/DoloresMission.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/DoloresMission-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/DoloresMission-960x641.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dolores Mission, where evening meals are served at Proyecto Pastoral. \u003ccite>(Dan Tuffs/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Twenty-six men sleep in the church. Others sleep in adjacent buildings. Altogether the men's shelter houses 45. There is also a smaller women's shelter that opened a year and a half ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One recent evening, a few of the men gathered around the TV before dinner. Among them was 59-year-old Andres Gonzales Perez, a relatively recent arrival to the mission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been here for two months,\" Gonzales said. \"It is the first time I am here at a mission, unfortunately.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzales said it's the first time he has been homeless. He used to work as a baker, but became sick with a lung ailment that needed treatment and couldn’t keep working. He tried unsuccessfully staying with his brother. About three months ago, he wound up on the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was very cold,\" Gonzales said. \"I got an ugly cough.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rigoberto Bejerano has been on the street longer. He said he tried staying for a time downtown, near Skid Row, where all the services are, but he found that frightening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There’s lots of drugs, lots of alcoholism, lots of perdition, lots of vandalism,\" said Bejerano, who has worked as a handyman. \"People don’t have any money, so they attack others to get what they want. It’s dangerous living downtown.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in Cypress Park, Alonso said one reason he camps in the hills is to avoid the dangers of the streets. He said he's been thinking lately about heading back to Mexico after 16 years in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he hasn't talked to his parents since he’s been on the street. At first, he told them everything was OK. 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I’m going to spray this cleaner in your eyes.'\"\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/283268889\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I talked to these women together with my colleagues Bernice Yeung and Daffodil Altan from \u003ca href=\"https://www.revealnews.org/\">Reveal at the Center for Investigative Reporting\u003c/a>, and Andrés Cediel and Lowell Bergman from the\u003ca href=\"http://investigativereportingprogram.com/\"> Investigative Reporting Program at UC Berkeley\u003c/a>. 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It took us almost a year and a half to find women willing to share the horrible things that happened to them. And now I found myself surrounded by a semi-circle of women, jockeying for position to talk into my microphone.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/night-shift/\">The Full 'Rape on the Night Shift' Series\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/night-shift/\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/ROTNS.jpg\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“A lot of things happen at night on the job,” said Anabel Aguirre, who has worked as a janitor for 16 years and says she was raped at work. “We are the people who come in at dawn to clean the buildings, but there’s no one to tell us how to protect ourselves. Now we know that we can help each other, tell our stories, bring these things to life.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aguirre’s daughter, Yamilex Rustrian, took the stage at the screening. “Knowing that she’s an immigrant woman, because she’s undocumented, they think this is right,” said Rustrian. “There is no excuse for rape, ever.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Some of these janitors have decided to become \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">promotoras\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, trainers and advocates for other janitors. Teaming up with rape crisis groups and women’s organizations, they’re teaching women about their rights and helping women connect to therapists.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">On Sept. 12, 14 \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">promotoras \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">began a hunger strike on the lawn of the state Capitol. The hunger strike ended Sept. 15, when Gov. 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Many cleaning companies are fly-by-night operations that subcontract, so abuse on the night shift can fly under the radar.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez says that janitors “have worked far too hard and too long for their families, to go unseen and unnoticed.” She says the purpose of the bill is “to shine a light on this industry, and make sure that we hold building owners responsible for abuses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The law doesn’t address bigger changes in the janitorial industry like having cleaners work in pairs, so they’re never alone -- or training more women to become supervisors. 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I’m just being affectionate.’ I told him, ‘You get any closer and I’ll hit you with the handle right now. I’m going to spray this cleaner in your eyes.'\"\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/283268889&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/283268889'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I talked to these women together with my colleagues Bernice Yeung and Daffodil Altan from \u003ca href=\"https://www.revealnews.org/\">Reveal at the Center for Investigative Reporting\u003c/a>, and Andrés Cediel and Lowell Bergman from the\u003ca href=\"http://investigativereportingprogram.com/\"> Investigative Reporting Program at UC Berkeley\u003c/a>. 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It took us almost a year and a half to find women willing to share the horrible things that happened to them. And now I found myself surrounded by a semi-circle of women, jockeying for position to talk into my microphone.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/night-shift/\">The Full 'Rape on the Night Shift' Series\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/night-shift/\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/ROTNS.jpg\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“A lot of things happen at night on the job,” said Anabel Aguirre, who has worked as a janitor for 16 years and says she was raped at work. “We are the people who come in at dawn to clean the buildings, but there’s no one to tell us how to protect ourselves. Now we know that we can help each other, tell our stories, bring these things to life.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aguirre’s daughter, Yamilex Rustrian, took the stage at the screening. “Knowing that she’s an immigrant woman, because she’s undocumented, they think this is right,” said Rustrian. “There is no excuse for rape, ever.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Some of these janitors have decided to become \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">promotoras\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, trainers and advocates for other janitors. 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Many cleaning companies are fly-by-night operations that subcontract, so abuse on the night shift can fly under the radar.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez says that janitors “have worked far too hard and too long for their families, to go unseen and unnoticed.” She says the purpose of the bill is “to shine a light on this industry, and make sure that we hold building owners responsible for abuses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The law doesn’t address bigger changes in the janitorial industry like having cleaners work in pairs, so they’re never alone -- or training more women to become supervisors. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>SACRAMENTO — Four decades after he signed the nation's first law giving farmworkers collective bargaining rights, Gov. Jerry Brown will again consider a historic proposal calling for farmworkers to receive the same overtime pay as other hourly workers, after the Assembly approved legislation Monday to phase in the change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California employers are already mandated to pay time-and-a-half to farmworkers after 10 hours in a day or 60 hours in a week. That's longer than the overtime pay for all other workers, who get it after eight hours in a day or 40 hours a week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Assembly passed the proposal with a 44-32 vote after two hours of debate over whether the increase in wages would cause managers to cut hours or jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There may be situations where people may believe that they will lose something in terms of economics, but my father taught me that it was more than about the money. It was about who he was as a man and it was about him being respected by everyone else like everyone else,\" said Assemblywoman Shirley Weber (D-San Diego). \"Sometimes, for that reason, you make that economic sacrifice.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1066\" target=\"_blank\">AB 1066\u003c/a> didn't initially get a vote at all after Assembly leaders were unsure whether it had the 41 votes needed to pass. Tensions flared when roughly 300 farmworkers and union leaders who had planned to join a rally learned that Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon (D-Paramount) had postponed the vote. About 100 people congregated outside Rendon's office, chanted \"overtime\" and sang \"De Colores,\" a Mexican folk song that was a staple at strikes and union meetings when Cesar Chavez led the UFW.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After United Farm Workers President Arturo Rodriguez and others met with Rendon, the speaker \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/08/26/assembly-to-vote-on-farmworker-overtime-bill-after-protest/\" target=\"_blank\">announced the bill would get a vote\u003c/a> on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill was previously passed in the state Senate 21-14. Brown spokeswoman Deborah Hoffman said he has not yet taken a position on it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez (D-San Diego) proposed that the state phase in time-and-a-half pay for farm laborers who exceed eight hours in one day by 2022 on large farms and by 2025 for farms with 25 or fewer employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're asking for equality eventually. It starts today, however,\" Gonzalez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents argue the seasonal nature of farm work does not lend itself to overtime. They said the added costs will require employers to cut workers' hours, ultimately hurting farmworkers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There was a special standard set for farming so that we could bring the crop in and be the leader, in California, to not only the world but the nation, and that our farmworkers would be taken care of,\" said Assemblywoman Shannon Grove (R-Bakersfield).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Assembly rejected the proposal in June, when eight Democrats opposed it and another six refused to vote. In what Gonzalez has described as an unprecedented move to revive the bill, she worked around the Legislature's rules and reinserted the proposal in another bill, angering Republicans who objected to the breach in procedure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez waged a social media campaign to pressure her Democratic colleagues to back AB 1066; agreed to compromises to win votes, including giving small farms an extra three years to pay more overtime; and led a squad of Democratic allies in a 24-hour fast paying homage to the weeks-long fast that legendary farmworker activist Cesar Chavez staged when the \"Salad Bowl\" strike of 1970 initially failed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown, currently serving in an unprecedented fourth term as California governor, first ran for the job on the heels of the nation's largest agricultural labor strike. Thousands of workers walked off farms in 1970, picketing for farm owners to recognize and negotiate fair labor conditions with the union that Chavez had established nearly a decade earlier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The strike fizzled with no legislative accomplishments under former Republican Gov. Ronald Reagan. The movement came alive again with Brown's election to the governor's office in 1974.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California lawmakers passed a similar bill in 2010 that would have deleted the exemption of agricultural employees from overtime requirements. Former Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed it.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Donald Trump has managed to offend most of the U.S. population while campaigning this election season. He has made multiple derogatory remarks against women, made generalizations about black communities, alienated an entire religion and characterized Latino immigrants as rapists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Despite all of these controversial statements, Trump still has the support of more than 40 percent of American voters, according to\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/us/general_election_trump_vs_clinton-5491.html\"> most recent polls\u003c/a>.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Freddy Cuellar is an 18-year-old Latino who lives in Richmond and supports Donald Trump\u003cstrong>. \u003c/strong>The 2016 election is the first in which Cuellar is eligible to vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He began his first year of college this month, studying political science. His parents immigrated to California from El Salvador a few years before he was born. They currently hold workers' permits to legally stay in the country. Freddy says his family once identified as Democrats, but that changed after Trump announced his run for president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11058998\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Trump-shirt.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11058998 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Trump-shirt-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Jose Cuellar shows off his Trump gear.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Trump-shirt-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Trump-shirt-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Trump-shirt.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Trump-shirt-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Trump-shirt-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Freddy Cuellar's father, Jose, shows off his Trump gear. \u003ccite>((Nailah Morgan/KQED))\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Democrats just give and give to people. ... But people need to work for what they want to achieve,” Cuellar said. “From what I’ve learned as a Republican, it doesn’t matter what color you are. If you work hard, you can do anything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cuellar supports Trump because of his stance on immigration. In fact, 68 percent of Trump supporters believe immigration is a huge problem in the U.S. according to a \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.people-press.org/2016/08/18/clinton-trump-supporters-have-starkly-different-views-of-a-changing-nation/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Pew Research report.\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Cuellar believes America’s current immigration policies are flawed, and that more resources should be used to support U.S. citizens rather than undocumented immigrants. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Right now, we are just being overloaded with too many immigrants, and I believe that we must try to at least have a good flow on how many immigrants we can accept without making it a burden to the country,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every Saturday, Cuellar goes door to door campaigning for Trump. He and his father visit affluent neighborhoods along Richmond’s waterfront. They knock on every door, even engaging people who are walking their dogs or riding bikes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When Cuellar comes across a Trump supporter, he beams with excitement, giving the person a sturdy handshake. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When Cuellar meets a Hillary Clinton supporter, he asks if there is any way to change their minds. He suggests third-party candidates like Jill Stein, hands out a \"Why you should not vote for Hillary” pamphlet and describes Clinton as “anti-women” because she has\u003ca href=\"https://www.clintonfoundation.org/contributors?category=%2410%2C000%2C001+to+%2425%2C000%2C000\"> accepted donations\u003c/a> from countries like Saudi Arabia. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though a few people slam their doors after hearing Trump’s name, many listen to Cuellar’s points on why Trump should be president. Cuellar lists Trump’s accomplishments in business and argues that Trump can save the U.S. economy. He pledges that Trump will create more jobs for minorities and focus on the betterment of U.S. citizens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Trump] is the only person, from what I can tell, to actually take America’s immigration policy seriously. His plan of putting Americans first is my favorite thing about his stances,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cuellar says he doesn't see Trump as anti-Latino but Pro-American, because he himself identifies as American more than he identifies as Latino.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Although his parents were once undocumented immigrants, Cuellar considers them an exception — good, hardworking people who are deserving of their new lives in America. \u003c/span>Freddy balls his right fist and hits his knee when he talks about how hard they had to work to get where they are today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Cuellar agrees with Donald Trump that many immigrants, unlike his own family, come to the U.S. with \"problems.\" He said he and his family have had multiple bad interactions with undocumented immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In the media, I always see people pushing the idea of all undocumented immigrants being hard workers and all-around kindhearted people. 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